Random site button?

[kevquirk]

Just had an idea, what about adding a button to the top of the page so that people can visit a random site from the club?

Haven't looked into how to do it, but I'm pretty sure it would be simple.

Thoughts?

[kmutahar]

Something like what "Weird Wide Webring" does?

It would be a cool feature, and would increase activity on people's sites.

I'll also start looking at away. I believe it would require some Javascript

[kevquirk]

Exactly like WW Web Ring. 😊

That project is open source, so I'm sure we can probably repurpose the randomisation code - I'm sure Jack won't mind.

I've no objections to introducing a little JS as long as it respects the visitors.

[Deleted user]

Well, it depends on how you want the array to be. This can also be solved with PHP. Both methods below has been tested and do work.

JavaScript

$('body').on('click', 'a#random', function() {
	var items = [
		'test',
		'hej',
		'haha'
	];

	var item = items[Math.floor(Math.random() * items.length)];
	console.log(item);
});

PHP

$items = [
	'test',
	'hej',
	'haha'
];

$item = array_rand($items);
echo $items[$item];

[binyamin]

Why not use Netlify functions? That wouldn't require any JS in the frontend, just a link.

[kevquirk]

This has been merged in #513